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The Repeater control is used to display a repeated list of items that are bound to the control.

The ASP.NET Repeater is a basic container control that allows you to create custom lists from any data available to the page. It's a handy control, especially since most ASP.NET pages that display data need to repeat the same kinds of data over and over.

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How to find controls in a repeater header or footer

I was wondering how one would find the controls in the HeaderTemplate or FooterTemplate of an Asp.Net Repeater control. I can access them on the ItemDataBound event, but I was wondering how to get them after (for example to retrieve a value of an…
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ASP.NET Repeater bind List

I am binding a List to a Repeater control. Now I want to use the Eval function to display the contents in ItemTemplate like <%# Eval("NAME") %>. But I am not sure what I should use instead of NAME.
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ASP.net Repeater get current index, pointer, or counter

the question is really simple. Is there a way to access the current pointer/counter for an asp Repeater control. I have a list with items and I would like one of the repeaters columns (it repeats and html table) to be something like ... Item 1 |…
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ASP.NET repeater alternate row highlighting without full blown

I'm trying to accomplish simply adding a css class to a div on alternate rows in my without going to the overhead of including a full blown which will force me to keep a lot of markup in sync in the…
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Default text for empty Repeater control

Using VS 2008, I have a Repeater control: …
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Nested Repeaters in ASP.NET

I have a class that contains hierarchical data. I want to present this data in my ASP.net webapp using nested repeaters. How do I do this? I've only ever done one level of nesting, how do I do say five levels? Each item can have zero or many sub…
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Repeater in Repeater

I have a repeater inside a repeater. Where the parent repeater is bound to a Datatble which has a column with a Datatable in it. I would like to bind the child repeater to the datatable column in the parent repeater's datarow Is this possible? i was…
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Bind dictionary to repeater

I have a dictionary object and would like to bind it to a repeater. However, I'm not sure what to put in the aspx markup to actually display the key-value pair. There are no errors thrown and I can get it to work with a List. How do…
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Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control

I am getting the following error Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control. but all I am trying to do is inside a ASP.NET REPEATER Control <% if ( Eval("Message").ToString() ==…
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Binding a generic list to a repeater - ASP.NET

I am trying to bind a List to a repeater. I have converted the list into an array by using the ToArray() method and now have a array of AreaField[] Here's my class hierarchy public class AreaFields { public List Fields { set;…
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Strange Error - CS0012: The type x is defined in an assembly that is not referenced

The type 'x' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'abc123'. I have a .NET 2.0 web application that references my assembly 'abc123'. The assembly exists in the GAC and I've verified that it is the…
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How can I loop through Items in the Item Template from an asp:Repeater?

I have a repeater, which is bound on preRender with items. In the Item template each row has a check box. This works fine. I'm trying to loop through all the checkboxes in the item template after it has been bound. Is there any way of doing this?
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Formatting DataBinder.Eval data

How can I format data coming from a DataBinder.Eval statement in an ASPX page? For example, I want to display the published date of the news items in a particular format in the homepage. I'm using the ASP.NET 2.0 Repeater control to show the list of…
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asp.net radio button grouping

I am currently having an issue with radio buttons and grouping. I have an asp radio button within a repeater control. I have the group name attribute set to "Customer". When the page loads, the radio buttons are not grouped. Instead of the id fields…
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How to access datasource fields in an ASP.NET Repeaters ItemDataBound event?

I have a Repeater control that is being bound to the result of a Linq query. I want to get the value of one of the datasource's fields in the ItemDataBound event, but I'm not sure how to do this.
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